Replacement GPS logging app for iPhone

dirk at hohndel.org dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Oct 18 07:23:13 PDT 2021


Which format do these apps save the GPS information in?
Obviously the next request from someone will be to import such format...

/D

On October 18, 2021 7:04:44 AM PDT, Willem Ferguson via subsurface <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
>In Android there are many similar programs. One of the more versatile is
>GPS Essentials.
>Kind regards,
>Willem
>
>On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, 15:52 Jason Bramwell via subsurface, <
>subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
>
>> I currently use the old no longer maintained Subsurface companion app for
>> capturing my GPS position, this worked well for me and I didn’t really see
>> any reason to switch my GPS logging to the newer Subsurface-mobile app. The
>> old phone (this is the only thing I use it for) I use for capturing these
>> GPS points is slowly dying and will need to be replaced at some point, the
>> old app will not work on newer versions of iOS so I need to find an
>> alternate solution.
>>
>> Subsurface-Mobile no longer supports GPS capture so that is no longer an
>> option So I thought I’d tell others what app I have replaced it with (or am
>> planning to use) as I’ve looked at quite a few and there has always been a
>> catch or a problem with each one I’ve looked at before now.
>>
>> I’ve found an app today that seems to do exactly what I want, it captures
>> GPS positions either as a one-time capture or an an automatic capture based
>> on a time delay or distance between points. You can display the captured
>> points either as a simple sequential list or visualise them on a map to
>> pick the one you want.
>>
>> I’m hoping to try this for real alongside the old companion app) in the
>> coming week but it looks like I now have something that’ll work for me.
>>
>> This is on iPhone, I don’t know if the same app is available on Android
>> but if not this one then something similar will be out there. Perhaps
>> Android users can reply with what they are using to save others the
>> searching for something that isn’t junk.
>>
>> Regards
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
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from my phone
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